Legal Status of Fetus in Alberta

The Calgary Herald reports on a private member’s bill in the legislature that would enable a child to sue her mother for damages sustained while the mother was pregnant. This would allow the family to sue the mother’s automobile insurance company so they can get some financial help caring for the child, who is blind and brain damaged.

This of course enters that topic Canadians have supposedly put behind them: the rights of the fetus and whether, indeed, the fetus is actually a human being, despite how much Canadians ignore scientific evidence showing that it is.

Cases like this have arisen in the US as well.